Posted on 11/13/2003 6:04:36 AM PST by OESY
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:21 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It was one of W.B. Yeats's deepest beliefs that a true poet always writes out of his personal life, but only after his experience has been transmuted into a myth. "He is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete."
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Occult beliefs, a Nobel Prize, the whirligig of politics . . . and the late, great poems.
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